Question

What type of figurative language does Wells use in the underlined portion of this excerpt?

It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes—to come to this at last.

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Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
Simile

Answer 1

We can see the use of simile as figurative language in the excerpt shown above.

We can reach this answer because:

• The simile is an explicit comparison between two elements.
• During a reading, it is easy to identify the simile as it is established using the words "like" and "as."

In this case, we can see the simile in the clause "[...] security and permanency as its watchword." Which shows that an explicit comparison is being presented in the text.

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